News

August 13, 2004 22:33

• Armenian side 'not inclined to resume hostilities'

  "I think it's not realistic to talk about the resumption of hostilities in Karabakh in the foreseeable future. But nothing can be excluded," Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian said to journalists after command and staff exercises of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army.

August 12, 2004 19:27

• Oil rises in price, Azerbaijan budget's receipts increase

  It is planned to fix the oil price in the 2005 state budget within the bounds of $20-22 per barrel, the Ministry of Finance has announced.

August 12, 2004 19:22

• Gunmen in masks abduct local resident

  According to available information, four people arrived at the village of Paraboch in two Zhiguli cars without number plates, smashed the front door and rushed into the house on Terskaya Street which Dzhayruddin Nazhuyev lived in.

August 12, 2004 19:20

• Georgia masses troops on South Osetian border

  It may well be that the Georgian side will try to storm Tskhinvali and nearby settlements already today.

August 11, 2004 19:10

• Authorities prevent opposition newspaper from working

  The authorities found the owners of rented rooms, put pressure on them, and achieved the eviction of the editors.

August 11, 2004 19:07

• Share of small and middle business in Armenia's GDP comes to 40%

  Over 4,700 new subjects with almost 11 thousand workplaces were registered in the field of small and middle business in the first six months of 2004.

August 11, 2004 19:05

• Two thirds of applicants in Shatoy district wait for compensation

  Many people assert they had to give local functionaries from 30 to 50 percent of the compensation so that to receive the rest of the sum.

August 10, 2004 19:10

• People in Gali district wait for presidential election with hope

  Providing security of the population and central authorities' paying attention to the residents of the district will contribute to the greater integration of the Gali district into the economy of Abkhazia, Chairman of the Gali District Assembly Otar Latsuzbaya holds.

August 10, 2004 19:05

• NGO plans to build housing for IDPs

  A meeting of internally displaced persons (IDPs) arranged by the non-governmental organization Aist (Stork) took place in Stavropol on August 8.

August 10, 2004 19:02

• Car with Russian policemen blown up in Grozny

  Senior Sergeant Aleksey Vaynalovich died on the scene. Two other policemen, Dmitry Kotelnikov and Aleksandr Maslovsky, received severe injuries and were taken to a military hospital.

August 09, 2004 19:36

• Human Rights Summer School opens in Baku

  Government officials, parliamentarians, representatives of diplomatic institutions acting in Azerbaijan, journalists, and NGO activists are expected to attend the opening ceremony.

August 09, 2004 19:33

• Ingushetia to have local governing bodies

  President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov has issued a decree the other day to set up the Working Group to Implement Regulations of the Federal Law on General Principles of Organizing Local Government.

August 09, 2004 19:31

• President of Chechnya to be elected in 20 days

  20 days prior to Election Day, only one candidate, Alu Alkhanov, is active in his election campaign.

August 06, 2004 22:08

• ACPC welcomes Akhmadov asylum decision

  "The fact that the US government did not oppose the immigration decision, which had rejected unsubstantiated allegations by the Russian government, is a strong affirmation of the long held position of the opposition government that a peaceful solution is in the best interests of all parties in this long-standing dispute," said ACPC Executive Director Glen Howard.

August 06, 2004 18:49

• United Abkhazia holds conference, nominates presidential candidate

  Beslan Kubrava, a board member of the movement, gave a report about main directions of the movement's activity. According to him, the movement will pay special attention to the group of social issues, problems of demography and repatriation. "Our strategic task is to improve the people's well-being," Mr Kubrava said.

August 06, 2004 18:47

• Tense situation in Armenia caused by rigged elections, MP says

  In Arshak Sadoian's opinion, a wrong structure of the ruling system has been created, which gives too much power to the authorities.

August 06, 2004 18:45

• Moscow Government promotes economic cooperation with Abkhazia

  Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov mentioned one more time that his visit to Abkhazia had only business purposes. He said he would have to solve some economic questions during it.

August 05, 2004 22:53

• Basayev hided in Kabardino-Balkaria for two months

  According to information obtained by investigative agencies, officers of the road and sentry service helped the rebel leader make his way to the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Criminal proceedings have been instituted against these officers.

August 05, 2004 19:57

• Karabakh minister does not deny printing national currency

  Minister of Finance and Economy of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh Spartak Tevosian neither denied these reports nor gave any information about the purposes and place of the printing.

August 05, 2004 18:57

• Human rights activists tell PACE rapporteurs about corruption

  Members of the Federation of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan raised problems of corruption, political prisoners, municipal elections, dependence of courts, human rights activists' access to prisons, and persecution of human rights activists and journalists.